<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Publication of the
Spring 2015 issue (vol.55, no. 1) of the Korea Journal</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">The spring 2015 issue (vol. 55, no. 1) of the Korea
Journal has been published. This issue contains six peer-reviewed articles
covering various topics in the field of Korean Studies and two book reviews.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">In the first article, Lee analyses how literature
depicts the experience of the black Amerasian in Korea and describes diverse
aspects of their experience through perspectives of both Korean and Korean
American.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">The second article, written by Clark, examines four
paradoxical facts about Korea’s extraordinary development into an advanced
nation shortly after the Korean War, which, he argued, was enabled by the
integration into the world economy.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">The third article by Seo and Kim investigates about
the period when South Korea was under Park Chung-hee’s leadership (1972-1979),
and by focusing on <i>bansanghoe</i> (a
monthly neighbourhood meeting) it brings up the problems related to how the
boundary between extraordinary and ordinariness becomes vague, and then finally
suggest the potentiality of democratic alteration of the meeting.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Jin and Shim study the APA (Asia, Politics, Art
Project) artworks in terms of “performative narrative of the people,” and
introduce the works of zainichi artists including Oh Haji and Soni Kum who, by
utilizing images of the non-mainstream, intended to break the notion of
nation-state and to propose new room for minority.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Kim’s article discusses discourses on Koreanness
within the field of visual culture in Korea during 1970s and analyses how these
visual images and art education played political roles in order to develop the
country and to establish national identity under the governmental policies.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Lastly, Chung points out the collaboration of South
Korean and German feminists as the main impetus for the success of recent
feminist campaigns in Korea, and highlights the significance of cooperation
across the border of the First and the Third World in terms of feminist
movements.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">This issue of the Korea Journal includes a book review
of Todd A. Henry’s <i>Assimilating Seoul:
Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945</i>,
in which the author analyses Japanese strategies to assimilate Korea under its
imperialism, focusing on the town planning of Seoul which used to be called
Keijo at that time. Also included is a book review of Janet Poole’s <i>When the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination
in Late Colonial Korea</i>, where the author examines the contradictions during
the progress of urbanisation in colonial Korea through the literary works of
various writers.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">The
contents of this issue are as follows:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">ARTICLES</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Kun
Jong Lee</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">The
Black Amerasian Experience in Korea: <i>Representations
of Black Amerasians in Korean and Korean American Narratives</i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Cal
CLARK</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">The
Paradoxes in Globalization’s Economic Empowerment of South Korea</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Jungmin
SEO and Sungmoon KIM</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Civil
Society under Authoritarian Rule: Bansanghoe <i>and Extraordinary Everyday-ness in Korean Neighborhoods</i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Eun-young
JIN and Bo-seon SHIM</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">The
Politics and Aesthetics of the Wound: <i>Performative
Narratives of the People by</i> Zainichi<i>
Korean Artists</i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Hyungsook
KIM</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">National
Identity Discourses in Visual Culture and Art Education</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Hyunback
CHUNG</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Transnational
Solidarity in Feminism: <i>The Transfer and
Appropriation of German Feminism in South Korea</i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">BOOK REVIEW</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">John
Whittier TREAT</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the
Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945. </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">By Todd A. Henry<i></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Samuel Gerald
COLLINS</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">When the Future Disappears: The Modernist
Imagination in Late Colonial Korea</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">By Janet Poole</span></p><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:16px">We would like to take this opportunity to remind all of you that we always welcome submissions of articles and book reviews in the field of Korean studies. For further information on submission guidelines, please refer to the journal's web page: </span><a href="http://www.ekoreajournal.net/submission/index.htm" target="_blank" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:16px">http://www.ekoreajournal.net/submission/index.htm</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:16px">.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:16px">All the best,</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:16px"><i>Korea Journal </i>Editorial Team</span></div><div><br></div><div>Korea Journal</div><div>Korean National Commission for UNESCO </div><div>26 Myeongdong-gil (UNESCO Road)</div><div>Jung-gu, Seoul 100-810, South Korea</div><div>Tel. +82-2-6958-4161/4110</div><div>Fax.+82-2-6958-4250</div><div><br></div><div><p style="font-size:13px"><font color="#3d85c6">--------------------------------------------</font></p><p style="font-size:13px"><b style="font-family:나눔고딕"><font color="#0000ff">교육이 희망입니다!</font></b><br></p><p style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:나눔고딕">유네스코한국위원회는 교육으로 아프리카, 아시아의 배우지 못해 가난한 이웃들을 돕습니다. </span></p><p style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:나눔고딕">당장의 빵과 의약품도 중요하지만, </span><span style="font-family:나눔고딕">대물림되는 가난을 극복할 수 있는 유일한 희망은 바로 교육입니다.</span></p><p style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:나눔고딕">유네스코한국위원회의 지구촌 교육 나눔 사업에 동참을 부탁드립니다. </span></p><p style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:나눔고딕">소중한 후원은 홈페이지(</span><a href="http://peace.unesco.or.kr/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:나눔고딕" target="_blank">peace.unesco.or.kr</a><span style="font-family:나눔고딕">)를 통해 하실 수 있으며, 기부금영수증을 통해 연말 세액공제도 받으실 수 있습니다.</span></p><p style="font-size:13px"><img src="http://peace.unesco.or.kr/footer/mail_footer.jpg"></p></div></div></div></div>
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